Telegraph tries to set the Euro agenda

It looks as though the debate about a European referendum will erupt again this morning.The Telegraph's lead story this morning


A poll carried out by the paper showed

almost 90 per cent of voters want a ballot.
More than 133,000 of the 152,000 people who responded in a series of mini-referendums backed a national vote on the Lisbon Treaty, which would transfer more of Britain's sovereignty to Brussels.

The poll was conducted in 10 marginal seats where either Labour or the Lib Dems face a battle at the next election.

What creadance can be given to this though.10 marginal constituencies and 133,000 voters,hardly representative.Perhaps a case for the Telegraph once again trying to set the political agenda.

Look no further than its leader.

Ours was the only newspaper to cover last week's lobby of the House of Commons. Elsewhere, five demonstrators on the roof of the building were considered more newsworthy than thousands of concerned citizens queuing politely beneath. Meanwhile, the fact that 10 constituencies were casting representative votes for the rest of us was chiefly ignored.
Well, it can't be ignored now. The results are astonishing, and have left opponents of a referendum opening and closing their mouths like Appalachian mountain men

And now this morning,we have protesters up a crane in Westminster,co incidence?

The Mirror quite rightly rubbishes the poll,and in its leader says

Eurosceptics face an inevitable - and deserved - defeat on Wednesday in the Commons.
The Tory-dominated campaign for a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon makes more noise than sense.
Most people recognise that Britain's future is as part of Europe, not constantly refighting a battle pro-Europeans won in the 70s.

Peter Hoskin though says

There can be no clearer message for the Government and the Lib Dems. They've both underestimated the strength of public feeling on this. And we can expect numerous MPs to beat a nervous retreat from their parties' ludicrous positions, ahead of Wednesday's vote on a Conservative amendment calling for a referendum. In the meantime, it's all more grist for Cameron's anti-Westminster grindstone.

Whilst the Times leader this morning describes

The manner in which the Government has conducted itself on this question is a scandal. An explicit pledge of a referendum on what was then called the EU constitution was made by Tony Blair in 2004 and then set out in the manifesto upon which Labour and Gordon Brown fought and won the general election a year later.